fieldpiece
Britishnoun
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What a Lovely War too often becomes bogged down in its own dogged sincerity and finally becomes mired, like some promising but unwieldy fieldpiece, in the Marne's mud.
From Time Magazine Archive
We then tried a few shots with the fieldpiece, but the gun made bad practice, and the shells exploded very wildly and not according to the distances regulated by the fuses.
From Ismailia by Sir Samuel White Baker
He referred to an ancient fieldpiece located on the front lawn of the school.
From The Rover Boys Under Canvas or The Mystery of the Wrecked Submarine by Edward Stratemeyer
Bart made out a long fuse trailing three feet or more over the side of the old fieldpiece.
From Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent by Allen Chapman
But General Foch's troops were well supplied with that terrible engine of destruction—the French 3-inch fieldpiece, known, as the 75-mm., an extremely powerful gun for its caliber.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 12) The War Begins, Invasion of Belgium, Battle of the Marne by Francis Trevelyan Miller
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